This week's Super Tuesday was jam-packed with added value as, in a one-time deal, Black Belt Poker hosted a $10 No Limit Hold'em satellite with two seats into Saturday's WSOP Academy - How to Win Your WSOP Main Event Seat - worth £150 each.
In a hotly contested event that saw the likes of Simon 'ourkidsid' Herrick and Mandy 'wondrwmn' Card hit the virtual felt, the lucky winners were serial League finalist Chris 'CroadYuk' Roadknight and London Live II finalist Gareth 'PKRLocke' Alder. They'll both be joining Alex Rousso, Jamie Burland and Neil Channing later in the week at London's world-famous Vic Casino.
Only 12 players competed, so, yet again, Super Tuesday was firing out enough value to shoot down an army. Speaking of value, the League returned for its fifth Leg, entrants musterd keen to scale the ranks and snap up one of the added prizes on offer.
This time around, the winner was Academy mentor and Black Belt Poker sponsored pro Jamie 'StilettoMafiosa' Burland, the UKIPT Brighton Champion topping a field of 60 to bring home the $96.00 of bacon and head into Saturday's Academy with some bragging writes under his arm.
Jamie wasn't the only familiar name in the League; Neil Channing was close, but no cigar in 13th, whilst reigning League Champion Trevor 'TeeDeeEye1' Ingman performed admirably in 28th. Last week's winner Mark '99Ranny' Ranson also fared well in 20th.
1st StilettoMafiosa -- $96.00
2nd tristiano -- $66.00
3rd habbad -- $40.50
4th Bambury -- $30.00
5th Touagorimou -- $22.50
6th Elysiumjay -- $18.00
7th CareybearBBP -- $15.00
8th 5upern0vae -- $12.00
Jamie's triumph propelled him into the top spot in the standings with 378 points, making him the clear favourite to become League IX Champion with just three legs left. This is the first time this season that someone has shown signs of pulling away, but his progress was aided by the fact that 'CroadYuk' finished a disappointing 41st, whilst Kim 'insider66666' Vernon - who led the way last week - was forced to collect the wooden spoon in 60th. Meanwhile, Tristan 'tristiano' Chaplin leapt into third place with a second consecutive final table appearance; if he remains there, he'll earn himself a share in a Black Belt in the WSOP $10,000 Main Event.
The top 10, on the whole, witnessed few changes. The only switch was Richard 'nakgeela4' Dally replacing 'rattersbrrfc' who, sadly, no-showed to slip from sixth to thirteenth.
1st StilettoMafiosa -- 378 points
2nd CroadYuk -- 326 points
3rd tristiano -- 314 points
4th insider6666 - 313 points
5th mork1971 -- 308 points
6th UliKoko -- 287 points
7th BoatDrink -- 281 points
8th JimmyTheBhoy -- 280 points
9th nakgeela4 -- 268 points
10th ScarredGenitals -- 266 points
11th sandy1611 -- 264 points
12th Mrdroodle -- 264 points
13th rattersbrfc -- 261 points
14th CareybearBBP -- 260 points
15th losbert40 -- 255 points
16th pbsef81 -- 254 points
17th Stewboi -- 253 points
18th generalshifty -- 246 points
19th Bambury -- 242 points
20th TeeDeeEye1 -- 239 points
With the distraction of the Academy satellite, it would have been easy to forget about the Deepstack Mulligan. 11 didn't:
1st Brewski1 -- $82.50
2nd UsainZeus88 -- $49.50
3rd losbert40 -- $33.00
4th Chriopractor
5th Touagorimou
6th ourkidsid
7th CroadYuk
8th JHobbit1
9th lionrampant27
10th StilettoMafiosa
11th russellhansen
Our congratulations go out to both Gareth and Chris - we look forward to seeing you at the weekend - as well as Black Belt Poker pro Jamie Burland for taking the League by the scruff of the neck and giving it an aggressive shake. With his current momentum, he could be hard to catch, but, to quote Lord Winton, "You have to be in it to win it," so we'll be seeing you next week for another action-packed Super Tuesday.
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